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Poster

Deering Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1915
Description: Advertising poster with inset color illustrations showing Deering brand reapers, mowers, grain binders and dump rakes. Includes an illustration of four old...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Onions

Date: 10 30 1909
Description: An elderly, bearded man hauls a giant onion using a dolly. The man is wearing a black hat and white work gloves. The background shows the side of a barn....
Photograph

Farmers Union Workshop Member

Date: 
Description: A Farmers Union member from Astatde, Tennessee, attending a workshop at Highlander Folk School.
Photograph

Farmers Union Member at Courthouse

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Description: Farmers Union member in a courthouse meeting in Alabama.
Photograph

Alabama Farmers Union Member

Date: 
Description: Portrait of an old Alabama Farmers Union member.
Photograph

Ferdinand Heim

Date: 05 24 1948
Description: Outdoor portrait of Ferdinand Heim, long-time resident of rural Middleton.
Photograph

"Typical Good Family"

Date: 10 06 1950
Description: Portrait of the Herman Fischer family. Emmy Lou, 16, and Herman, Jr., 20, are standing in the back row. Seated in the second row are Grandma Emma Fischer,...
Photograph

One-Hundred Year Old Madison Resident

Date: 07 03 1952
Description: Alba Knight sitting on the porch of his residence at 20 South Broom Street. He is about to turn one-hundred years old. He came to Wisconsin from Maine when...
Photograph

Beck Barn

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Description: Vernon and Alice Beck and son, Milan, live at W1057 Zion Church Road (Section 34). Their silo is 98 years old and the barn is 150 years old.
Photograph

Ed Radke

Date: 10 1980
Description: "Ed Radke turns soil on his property."
Photograph

Ed Radke

Date: 10 1980
Description: "Ed Radke turns soil on his property."
Photograph

Gathering Corn

Date: 11 1981
Description: Ed Radke gathering corn on land now occupied by the Theresa Library and Highlander Estates.
Photograph

Farmer Relaxes in his Workshop

Date: 11 1981
Description: Farmer Ed Radke relaxes in his not so tidy workshop.
Photograph

Portrait of a Farmer

Date: 1955
Description: Portrait of farmer seated beside barn.

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